53 



The chief earthworks are found on Haddix Hill, and may be classed 

 in two groups, viz : Mounds and Lines of ^arthworJcs. Of the 



MOUNDS 



there are three (3) constructed of earth and one stone mound, all on 

 Haddix Hill, and are shown on the accompanying plan marked a, b, c, 

 and d, respectively. 



Mound (c), situated in cultivated land, is by far the most exten- 

 sive, and bears no traces of ever having been disturbed by explorers. 

 Like all mounds of exposed situation it has greatly changed its form, 

 having extended its circumference at the expense of its height; it is 

 now about ten (10) feet high and about sixty (60) feet in diameter, 

 with a nearly circular base. 



Mound (a) is the next in extent, about ten (10) feet high and fifty 

 (50) feet in diameter, also circular at the base. It has been opened 

 and explored to some degree; but the investigation, having been 

 carried neither with the necessary amount of carefulness, nor to a 

 sufficient extent, has revealed little beyond the proof that it was a 

 burial mound. The adits still visible warrant the supposition that a 

 future investigation might still be of profit. 



Mound (b) is in the line of earthworks "f" and the smallest of the 

 earth mounds, about one-half the size of mound (a). The "Morse 

 Natural History Society of Urbana University" have explored this 

 mound and proved it to be a sepulchral mound. Parts of two skele- 

 tons were found in rudely made stone receptacles, overlain by heavy 

 flat stones, serving, evidently, as a covering. 



Mound (d) consists of an irregular heap of stones out of whose 

 midst. a vigorous tree has grown which is standing now (1878). 

 Were it not for relics, and human remains found there, one would 

 hardly suspect in it the work of a prehistoric race, so much does it 

 resemble an ordinary heap of refuse rock. It is perhaps two (2) feet 

 high and twelve (12) to fifteen (15) feet across.* During the sum- 

 mer of 1877 there were found in this mound a stone pipe, afac simile 

 of which is found on Plate I, (Fig. 2), and a needle. The pipe is 

 quite a curiosity as it has been broken in two, and shows how the 

 owner endeavored to mend the break by cutting a groove in the upper 

 and lower broad surfaces, evidently for the purpose of receiving a 

 wooden or metal crosspiece to hold the fragments together by means 

 =''For further notice, see Appendix, "Interview with Esq. Haddix." 



